Re: userland access to devices is moving!

From: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk)
Date: 06/18/03

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    To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:42:14 +0200

    In message <20030618174733.GC10127@over-yonder.net>, "Matthew D. Fuller" writes:
    >
    >Speaking as somebody whose reach of mailing lists notably exceeds his
    >grasp (as it always should be; otherwise what fun is it?), I often find
    >myself a little in the dark on what these sort of things really /mean/ to
    >the system in the end, and I think it would be a nice extension of these
    >sort of posts/proposals to have a sentence of summary, along the lines
    >of:

    Well, what can I say but: "You're right".

    I do on the other hand not think that emails to arch@ is the best forum
    for the in-depth explanations.

    The "blueprint" articles which I am trying to restart in DĉmonNews
    may not be either, but I think they are more the right kind of
    forum for it. I am still warming up to the article format, and the
    amount of feedback so far has not really given me any feel for how
    complex issues I can tackle without the readers just skipping the
    article.

    The _real_ problem of course is that whenever I try to explain some
    of this stuff in text I end up with a totally incomprehensible piece
    of prose which entirely fails to communicate the simplicity of the
    underlying issue (and I suck at drawing graphics too).

    It is in other words equally frustrating from this end to not be
    able to communicate it better :-( 

    -- 
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